1st December: Workshop – Low Light Photography led by Julia Wainwright MPAGB ARPS

Many thanks to Julia for pulling together a monumental presentation on Low Light Photography last night.  Input from the team and members helped to make this such an informative, interactive and interesting evening.

It is amazing to think back to March when we thought we wouldn’t have a club programme at all, to the first tentative successful online competitions, to now.  Thanks to Zoom, Julia’s technical expertise, the committee’s commitment and the support of all our members we have an astonishing programme comprising  talks, competitions, ‘show and tell’ sessions and we have delivered seven ‘formal’ workshops covering Flat Lay, Triptych, Faceless Self Portraits, The Importance of Colour, Monochrome, Preparing Sets of Images and of course the final workshop of this calendar year – the huge subject of LLP.  Exhausting to read let alone do it!

We are all so grateful, particularly to Julia,  for the hard work, time and effort that goes into providing the club with a terrific programme of workshops, inspirational speakers, interwoven with monthly, annual and inter-club competitions.

We look forward to next week’s talk “And Now for Something Completely Different” by David Sadler.

Happy December everyone!

24th November: NWFed Inter-club Competition Round 2 – judged by Colin Southgate FRPS

The North West Federation inter-club competition comprises two sections within each round – prints and projected. Thanks to Covid-19, this year’s competition comprise two sections of projected images; the scores from each are combined to produce the overall result.  Within each section two stars are awarded amongst the ’20s’ and starred images go forward to the final (where all the starred images are judged) regardless of the clubs’ success.

We hosted our second round match last night between Croxley Camera Club, XRR and ourselves.  Colin Southgate’s commentaries were well-measured and informative.  Congratulations go to Croxley who won by a whisker in a very tight contest.  Congratulations also to Gordon Calder, Croxley CC, Andy Sands, XRR and Harrow’s Julia Wainwright and Avril Candler for their stars.

Many thanks to Colin Southgate, to our visitors for joining us and to everyone from Harrow who came along to support us.

Now we look forward to the third round in December, hosted by Croxley,  the decider of which club goes forward to the semi-finals early next year.

17th November: Annual Projected Sets of up to Seven Images – Judged by Kathy Chantler ARPS

Very many thanks to Kathy Chantler, from Imagez Camera Club, for her excellent judging last night.  Our annual sets of up to seven images is a rare beast! And this year we had a bumper entry. We ask the judge to critique not just the images within but also the set as a whole.   Kathy’s informative and helpful commentaries were much appreciated and she didn’t flag despite having to talk about in excess of a hundred images!

Many congratulations go to Mark Buckley-Sharp who won the Trophy with his set entitled “Lines”.  Mark tells us this set is mainly inspired by Art Deco in Bexhill with echoes of that style from Hastings and Rye. There are bold lines, mostly in a rigid geometry. The final image has the hue reversed for colour harmony.  It is certainly a departure from his usual narrative documentary genre – and it worked!

Julia Wainwright’s “King Penguins at the Seaside” was second and Avril Candler’s “Calla Lily Swirls” third.  Highly commended were Ron Churchill’s “Flam Dancer” and Judith Gimber’s “Remberance”.

Once again, many thanks to Kathy for her sterling judging and to everyone who entered and gave us such an interesting and delightful evening.

The entries my be viewed in our Facebook page but in the meantime here is a flavour of Mark’s “Lines”.